Self Reflection Essay

Hays (2008) discussed privilege and biases based on culture and how these privileges and biases can affect a therapist’s work. Having a healthy understanding of self-identity can help understand the role of privilege and biases. In order to help self-reflect, Hays (2008) presented the ADDRESSING model which includes age, disability (born with), disability (acquired), religion, ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous status, nationality, and gender. This ADDRESSING model will be applied in this paper.

While I appreciated that one of my peers provided feedback on my work, I feel that the feedback that was provided did not fulfill the assignment. My peer did not provide detailed feedback on my paper that could be adequately incorporated in my review and revisions. Most of the information that was provided as feedback were simply statements that reiterated what the prompt question was. Please see the below feedback provided to me by my peer.

The areas of productiveness in this session for me included the paraphrasing and minimal encouragers. Throughout this session I felt that my paraphrasing was clear and concise. It allowed the client to think about what he had said, while being able to provide me with feedback and allowed for the conversation to flow naturally.

“Hey, you! Pay attention!” A common statement I tell myself anytime I try to write a paper. Procrastination is a large portion of my writing process. I believe my best work is produced when I’m in a time crunch. The stress of time running out just makes the thoughts flow like a river of words.

Have you ever been confused, or even clueless about what to write about for that paper that’s due? Figuring out what you’re going to write about can sometimes be easier said than done. The writing process can be mentally painful, but the more effort you put in can mean the difference between a bad draft and a well-developed paper. My writing process is very time consuming and sometimes stressful. It’s like having to solve a really long math problem; your head is all over the place at first because you don’t even know where to start. A lot of time that is how I feel right before I begin writing a paper. These papers can often take a lot of time especially when you’re trying to incorporate each stage of the writing process. Self-motivation is

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I have learned that I need to work harder on fighting procrastination and distractions, If I can sit down and just write a little bit a few times a day, I can get it done with more wiggle room. More time to play and not having to worry about the assignment in the back of my mind. Maybe asking for help from a real human being, with ideas and outside knowledge rather than relying on computer programs that only work with what I already have written

The College of Charleston was my preferred college out of the colleges I applied to. A majority of the time this was a good choice. Then there are times when part of me thinks attending a different college would have been a better idea. Then again, it is only the first semester of my freshman year. Freshman year has a handful of requirements for classes, including the First Year Experience and the seminar that goes with it and many other general education courses. There were a good many choices to choose from for my First Year Experience class and The Gullah Community: Ethnographic Research in Gender and Identity was the one that stood out to me the most.

I have also realized that there are going to be many times you have to scrap ideas and start over. This semester I have realized that I try and perfect my assignments too much to where I start to crunch on time because it wasn’t to my expectation and I started over to many times, that there is in fact a way that too much thought can be put into a paper to where it becomes cluttered. The biggest growth I’ve seen over this semester is overall just my writing in general. At the beginning, my writing was very basic. My sentences were all around the same size and it was just not at the level of writing I would have liked it to be. The biggest thing that helped me with this over the semester would be just reading and editing mine as well as other peers’ papers. Towards the end of the semester it became easier to write, whether it was a personal, research, or

As a writer, I feel that my weakness is struggling with time management and trying to get my best draft as my first draft. I have always struggled with trying to put forth the best draft on the first one and just making little adjustments and then turning the paper in. Another weakness I have is to over complicate my writing and over think submitting the final draft. Every single essay that I have had to write throughout this semester I have struggled with these problems. Particularly the research paper, since the paper was worth such a big percentage of the grade in the class. I was extremely self-conscious about submitting and writing the paper. I took a long time just to finish a rough draft. I reviewed the final draft for hours before submitting the paper. I also experienced the problem of being extremely self-conscious after I submitted the paper and question everything I choose to write on.

When I think about myself as a writer I think about a working progress. I’m not an excellent writer but I’m not a terrible one either. I’m more intermediate. I feel like I put effort into my work but sometimes I can’t fully get out what I want to discuss. Therefore, this usually results in a rushed paper. In the past I’ve procrastinated about when I’m going to start writing, what I’m going to write about, and how I’m going to present my topic. I have to learn how to push myself. But overall I think I have gotten better about knowing what I want to talk about and organizing my thoughts and ideas and since this is my last paper I want to make it better than the rest or at least try to.

One of my biggest strengths is working well under a lot of stress and pressure. The more commitments I have, the better I seem to work. Being an RA, being on CAB exec board and being in other clubs around campus forces me to have deadlines and a routine that I stick to every day. Having free time is something I do not cope well with because I am used to always moving and working so if free time is given I have to use that time for something productive. I am not one of those students who can watch Netflix during the semester because if I am doing that then I know I am doing something wrong. If I am lucky enough to be picked for SRA next year, and have CAB, it will help me create a good routine for my day to day life which then enables me to get my work in on time. A thought one may have, though, is if I have too much on my plate, my work will suffer and not be as best as it can be, but, being a perfectionist, I refuse to submit work I am genuinely proud of which allows my work to never suffer.

I'm written this statement in response to the meeting we had on 6/22/2017 with Alex Wade and Darryl Massey who conducted my performance review. After careful consideration and further review, I feel I needed to clear up some areas of misunderstanding. I truly do not feel the evaluation represents my knowledge level nor my working ability.

One of my biggest challenges as a writer: time management. Though I can write under pressure, I cannot produce my best work under pressure; time is necessary to compose an excellent paper. I often procrastinated working on essays and watched TV shows or movies instead. Now, I tell myself I can only watch the next episode of Jane the Virgin after I complete my work. This technique assisted me in complete my work more proficiently and also eliminated the stress I would have gone through if I had worked last minute. Though I have developed better time management skills over the years, I attempt to improve them further constantly.

One of my weaker points as a writer is my time management. Managing time throughout the writing process is critical and necessary for a well-written paper. There are times where I have rushed a draft of a paper while skipping fundamental steps of the writing process. This is very clear when I go back and read over my first draft. Lack of time management has sometimes led me to make very noticeable and fixable errors all throughout papers. Most of this is due to a mix of procrastination outside of writing and being busy. Time management is an important skill to work on as there are many benefits that come from spending more time in the writing process. It would help not to rush when writing as I would be able to produce fewer mistakes and better, better thought out ideas.